If you could add One Work of Indian Writing in
English to a Syllabus…
Compiled by: Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Original
prompt: "if you were putting one literary work from India (in English
or available in English translation) on a list of the world's great
literature about religion (it doesn't have to be exclusively about
religion, but should deal in some way with religion), what would you
choose?" "If you had your students read one work of fictional
literature about India from the past century, what would it be?"
Suggestions:
Tissa
Abeysekara, Bringing Tony Home
Mulk
Raj Anand, Untouchable
S.
L. Bhyrappa, The Uprooted: Translation of the Original Novel
Vamshavriksha
in Kannada
Upamanyu
Chatterjee, English, August
Ismat
Chughtai, The Crooked Line
Kiran
Desai, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Sunil
Gangopadhyay, Sei Samay [Those Days]
Attiya
Hosain, Phoenix Fled
Qurratulain
Hyder, River of Fire
Arun
Kolatkar, Jejuri
Jhumpa
Lahiri, The Namesake
Saadat
Hasan Manto, Mottled Dawn
K.
Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
Gita
Mehta, Karma Cola or A River Sutra
Rohinton
Mistry, A Fine Balance
U.
R Anantha Murthy, Samskara
V.S.
Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
R.
K. Narayan, Waiting for the Mahatma or The Guide
Raja
Rao, The Serpent and the Rope or Kanthapura
Arundathi
Roy, The God of Small Things
Salman
Rushdie, Midnight¹s Children
Salman
Rushdie and Elizabeth West, editors, Mirrorwork
Mirza
Ruswa, Umrao Jan Ada
Shyam
Selvadurai, Funny Boy or Cinnamon Gardens
Vikram
Seth, A Suitable Boy
Bapsi
Sidwa, Cracking India
Kushwant
Singh, Train to Pakistan
A.
Sivanandan, When Memory Dies
Manil
Suri, The Death of Vishnu
Revised: October 12, 2006
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